Adil Najam A whole new generation has rediscovered Bulleh Shah. That is good. Much of the credit for this rediscovery goes to the ‘sufi rock’ band Junoon and, more recently to the New Delhi singer Rabbi Shergill, and most importantly to the magnetic simplicity of ‘Bulla, ki jaanan mein koun.’ (I guess, Abida Parveen did […]
Adil Najam I thought a fair bit about whether I should put this up or not. Its corny. But so very funny. So, here goes. [Thanks, again, to Adnan Siddiqi’s blog for alerting me to this]. Call me what you will, but I laughed out loud when I first saw this. The song selection really […]
A sufi qawall offering his devotional music at Data Saab’s in Lahore. I, too, am a fan of the so-called ‘Sufi Rock‘, but I sometimes wonder that instead of triggering a broader interest in Sufi music, it might have distracted attention from the ‘real thing’. (Original uploaded on Flickr.com by peterhessel).
